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SUMMARY:'Appointment with God'\; Facebook\, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra 
 Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi - Dr. Duncan Oman
 ga\, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Huma
 n Rights\, University of Cambridge (2018/9)\; Senior Lecturer of Media Stu
 dies in Moi University\, Kenya
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk with Dr. Duncan Omanga on Facebook\, Digita
 l-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands N
 airobi. The talk and Q&A will be followed by drinks with the speaker. All 
 are welcome to attend!\n\nAbstract: This talk centres on Nairobi’s Eastl
 ands culture of police extra-judicial killings of suspected gangsters that
  are foretold\, announced and published on Community Policing Facebook gro
 ups- Nairobi’s digital deathworld-whose administrators are policemen. In
  particular\, the talk explains how urban geocorpographies (how bodies acq
 uire specific meanings in space) in the Eastlands neighbourhoods of Kayole
 \, Dandora and Mathare\, where the routine killing of suspected gang membe
 rs already profiled on Facebook\, reveal policing practices that are both 
 a product of history and the state’s everyday performance of security. T
 he talk draws from field work in Kenya and a digital ethnography- to provi
 des a description of the digital deathworlds\, whose many facets offers in
 sights into policing logics\, gang dynamics and a significant support of e
 xtra-judicial killings among the public.  \n\nBio: Dr. Duncan Omanga is cu
 rrently a British Academy visiting fellow at the Centre for Governance and
  Human Rights (CGHR)\, University of Cambridge (2018/9\,) and a Senior lec
 turer of Media Studies in Moi University\, Kenya. Dr. Omanga is a past Cen
 tre for African Studies visiting fellow\, Cambridge (2015/6)\, and was the
  nominee for the 2017 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture (ASAUK)\, SOAS. He ha
 s researched and published on digital media in relation to security\, deli
 beration and democracy in East Africa. 
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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